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Mama's Dice Lament (Patreon 2016)

from Mary Crowell's Patreon: Year Two by Mary Crowell

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I wrote this song as a response to the song prompt, "Don't Tell Mama." Also, one of my patrons on Patreon asked me to write a song about dice since I play so much Dungeons & Dragons. This very silly song is the result.
If you like what you hear and want to help decide what I write next come join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell

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Mama’s Dice Lament
Copyright 2016 by Mary Crowell
(written April 30, 2016)

Chorus:
Don’t tell Mama that I had to borrow her dice.
If she told us once about that,
Well you know she told us twice.
“When you let other people use them,
They will find ways to lose and abuse them.
And it’s gotten hard to excuse them,
So just don’t let them borrow my dice.”

That’s her favorite twenty sider; it sparkles and all
Replaced the one in blue. It made her acrobat fall.
There’s a couple of percentiles let her make her god call,
And she keeps them in a velvet drawstring bag.

See those four cubes rolling sixes on her sneak attack
She stole that one from Robert. (She ain’t giving it back.)
If she’s missing even one, she’s aware of the lack.
And she hides them in a velvet drawstring bag.

Chorus

There’s the octahedron rolling eights for cure light to heal
Icosahedrons loudly rolling carved in marble and steel.
Red and yellow foamy dice made to squeeze and to feel
And she holds them in a velvet drawstring bag.

Chorus

And the one with faded crayon numbers she never rolls
It killed her fighter mage in a cave with some gnolls.
Her dice will often fail her though she pleads and cajoles,
Still she keeps them in a velvet drawstring bag.

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from Mary Crowell's Patreon: Year Two, released November 30, 2018
Originally recorded in Logic Pro 9 and then bounced later via Logic Pro X.
Mary Crowell vocals, clarinet, keyboard, MIDI instruments

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Mary Crowell Athens, Alabama

Mary Crowell is a singer/songwriter and piano teacher who loves mythology and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Her Patreon is here: www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell
She may be seen at science fiction and filk conventions performing and accompanying concerts on piano and occasionally clarinet.
Scattering Seeds on the Pomegranate Tour is her third solo album and is a mythic musical journey! ... more

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